Jelly d'Arányi: The complete Columbia recordings (1928-31)

Featuring

Jelly d'Arányi
Coenraad Bos
Arthur Bergh
Stanley Chapple
The Aeolian Orchestra
Tommaso Antonio Vitali

Johann Sebastian Bach
Giovanni Antonio Piani
Francesco Maria Veracini
Alessandro Parisotti
Pietro Nardini
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Fritz Kreisler
Johannes Brahms
Jenö Hubay
Léo Delibes
Franz Drdla
Nicholas Gatty
Arthur Walter Kramer
Isaac Albéniz
Manuel de Falla
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Performer Biography

Jelly d'Arányi was initially destined for the piano, giving her first concert at age six, but switched to violin after a teacher noticed her hands.

Performer Biography

Jelly d'Arányi, a distinctive female violin soloist, was born in Budapest in 1893 and was the youngest of three sisters, two of whom were also musicians.

Interpretation

Jelly d'Arányi was the first to adapt cadenzas written by Beethoven for the piano version of his Violin Concerto, with help from her friend Donald Francis Tovey, a Scottish composer and musicologist.

Recording & Production

This album primarily features Jelly d'Arányi's later recordings for Columbia, as many of her earlier recordings were made for the second-rank label Vocalion.

Performer Biography

Jelly d'Arányi championed new music, premiering works by composers like Ravel, Vaughan Williams, Dame Ethel Smyth, and Holst, and had pieces written for her by Szymanowski and Bartók.

Performer Biography

Jelly d'Arányi had no formal violin tuition after the age of 14, despite her exceptional talent, because her great uncle Joseph Joachim, who wanted to teach her, had died.

Instruments

Jelly d'Arányi was never comfortable with the Stradivarius violin that friends bought for her in 1936, having previously played a Carlo Bergonzi violin during her prime.